Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne (French pronunciation: [ʃəzo syʁ lɔzan] ⓘ, literally Cheseaux on Lausanne; Arpitan: Chesâls) is a municipality in the district of Lausanne in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

[3] Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne has an area, as of 2009[update], of 4.59 square kilometres (1.77 sq mi).

Of the rest of the land, 1.1 km2 (0.42 sq mi) or 24.0% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.03 km2 (7.4 acres) or 0.7% is either rivers or lakes.

[5] The municipality is part of the agglomeration of Lausanne in the Gros-de-Vaud valley.

[9] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (2,626 or 89.4%), with German being second most common (119 or 4.0%) and Portuguese being third (66 or 2.2%).

[8] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne is; 452 children or 12.1% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 451 teenagers or 12.0% are between 10 and 19.

[9] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][13] Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne is twinned with the town of Aubignan, France.

[14] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 25.95% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 959 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 44.1%.

[9] There were 1,642 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 44.5% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 125 or 15.5% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 37 or 4.6% were in the movement and storage of goods, 76 or 9.4% were in a hotel or restaurant, 438 or 54.4% were in the information industry, 8 or 1.0% were the insurance or financial industry, 21 or 2.6% were technical professionals or scientists, 54 or 6.7% were in education and 15 or 1.9% were in health care.

The municipality has a railway station, Cheseaux, on the suburban Lausanne–Bercher line.

A second, Bel-Air LEB, is nearby but administratively part of the Vernand [fr] exclave of Lausanne.

From the 2000 census[update], 983 or 33.4% were Roman Catholic, while 1,319 or 44.9% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts.

[18] During the school year, the political district provided pre-school care for a total of 2,648 children of which 1,947 children (73.5%) received subsidized pre-school care.

The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years.